Updated at 12:50 p.m.: Bouncers at a Plano bar had tried to keep Benjamin Kevin Newman from driving before he got into his car and intentionally ran over several people, according to a probable cause affidavit.

“The bouncers tried to stop Newman from getting into his vehicle, but he got in the driver’s seat,” one witness told police. One of the employees had recorded his license plate before letting him go. Witnesses said Newman sped off but then “came back around and floored it,” striking four people.

The bouncers were among those struck along with Newman’s friend, Christopher Brigman.

Investigators believe Brigman was struck by the right front of the vehicle, flipped into the air and struck the windshield with his head and shoulder. He then continued over the top of the vehicle, breaking the sun roof wind screen and slid down the back of the car. He died April 20 from blunt force trauma, according to his autopsy results.

Another of the bar employees was also severely injured. He told police he couldn’t remember what happened because of his injuries.

Newman told police in an interview after his arrest that he did not think he had had too much to drink that night. He said he was scared after the bouncers confronted him in an aggressive manner and wanted to leave. He also told police “he did not remember a lot of things from the night,” including running over four people, according to the affidavit.

When investigators told Newman that he had struck his friend, Brigman, “Newman broke down and started crying. Newman said he was sorry for his actions and said he should have stopped and not fled the scene,” the affidavit stated.

Original: A suspected drunken driver who police say intentionally mowed down a group of people outside a bar in Plano now faces a murder charge in the death of his friend.

The murder charge, along with a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, were added late Monday against Benjamin Kevin Newman, 22.

He was initially charged with driving while intoxicated and accident involving injury after the incident at about 10:30 p.m. April 17 in the parking lot of The Hangout in the 3300 block of North Central Expressway.

Newman is being held at the Collin County jail in lieu of $200,000 bail.

Plano Police spokesman David Tilley said there was some sort of incident in the bar that night and Newman was asked to leave. Witnesses saw him pulling out of the parking lot in his white sedan, but he returned minutes later, Tilley said.

Christopher Brigman

At that same time Brigman was walking across the parking lot with three employees from the bar. Newman “accelerated to a pretty high level of speed and intentionally struck them, not knowing that his friend was in that group that he hit,” Tilley said.

“We don’t believe there was any malice involved against his friend,” Tilley said. “It was more intended toward either one or more of those employees who were walking across.”

Newman didn’t stop his car after striking the crowd. He kept driving. Plano police arrested him a short time later on Central Expressway.

Two of the bar employees were treated at the scene. The third was hospitalized with serious injuries. The employee has since been released from the hospital.

The murder charge is a first-degree felony. Newman faces up to life in prison if convicted.

A McKinney man was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison after a violent assault on his girlfriend over several days last year, according to the Collin County District Attorney’s Office.

Marcellus Henderson, 39, was convicted by a jury on one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of misdemeanor assault. District Judge Ray Wheless issued the sentence on Tuesday.

Henderson and his girlfriend were living at the McKinney Value Place Inn last year when he suspected her of cheating. Prosecutors say he repeatedly beat her, threatened her with a knife and burned her with a lighter and a cigarette over four days in June 2012. On June 11, the woman asked a friend to call police.

Henderson has a criminal record, having previously served a five-year prison sentence for aggravated assault.

Police have issued a warrant charging Valdez with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the stabbing of 20-year-old Roman Meza. His bail has been set at $100,000.

Valdez was arrested by the Mesquite Police Department on an unrelated theft charge and is being held in Dallas County jail.

Police say Meza was stabbed multiple times after a fight broke out at a party in the 2200 block of Amherst Circle around 1:20 a.m. Sunday. A 15-year-old boy was taken to Medical Center of McKinney that night for a non-life threatening laceration.

Two men at the party were arrested on unrelated charges. Jonathan Barros, 20, was arrested on a charge of failure to identify and Anthony Moore, 20, was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.

Police are continuing to investigate. No further details were released.